Stevie C Y Yap1, M Brent Donnellan1, Seth J Schwartz2, Byron L Zamboanga3, Su Yeong Kim4, Que-Lam Huynh5, Alexander T Vazsonyi6, Miguel Ángel Cano7, Eric A Hurley8, Susan Krauss Whitbourne9, Linda G Castillo10, Roxanne A Donovan11, Shelly A Blozis12, Elissa J Brown13. 1. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University. 2. Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. 3. Department of Psychology, Smith College. 4. School of Human Ecology, The University of Texas at Austin. 5. Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge. 6. Department of Family Sciences, University of Kentucky. 7. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. 8. Department of Psychology, Pomona College. 9. Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 10. Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University. 11. Department of Psychology, Kennesaw State University. 12. Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis. 13. Department of Psychology, St. John's University.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Past research has established that the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) exhibits measurement invariance across diverse ethnic groups. However, relatively little research has evaluated whether this measure is invariant across generational status. Thus, the present study evaluates the invariance of the MEIM across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation respondents. METHOD: A large, ethnically diverse sample of college students completed the MEIM as part of an online survey (N = 9,107; 72.8% women; mean age = 20.31 years; SD = 3.38). RESULTS: There is evidence of configural and metric invariance, but there is little evidence of scalar invariance across generational status groups. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that the MEIM has an equivalent factor structure across generation groups, indicating it is appropriate to compare the magnitude of associations between the MEIM and other variables across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation individuals. However, the lack of scalar invariance suggests that mean-level differences across generational status should be interpreted with caution. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).
OBJECTIVES: Past research has established that the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) exhibits measurement invariance across diverse ethnic groups. However, relatively little research has evaluated whether this measure is invariant across generational status. Thus, the present study evaluates the invariance of the MEIM across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation respondents. METHOD: A large, ethnically diverse sample of college students completed the MEIM as part of an online survey (N = 9,107; 72.8% women; mean age = 20.31 years; SD = 3.38). RESULTS: There is evidence of configural and metric invariance, but there is little evidence of scalar invariance across generational status groups. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that the MEIM has an equivalent factor structure across generation groups, indicating it is appropriate to compare the magnitude of associations between the MEIM and other variables across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation individuals. However, the lack of scalar invariance suggests that mean-level differences across generational status should be interpreted with caution. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).
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